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1 day agoEmma Straub's New Novel Is For Grown Women Who Once Fangirled Over Boy Bands
Emma Straub's novel American Fantasy explores middle-aged women's nostalgia and joy through a fictional boy band cruise experience.
burdened by loneliness, depression, and the incessant needs of others, pours herself a stiff drink and steps up to the noose she's hung from the rafters of her airy farmhouse. Then the phone rings: her ungrateful brother, making demands. She tries again-another ring, another request, this time from a friend. She plays the piano, doesn't she? Will she join a group of fellow-amateurs for a charity gig? Twice thwarted, Beth sighs, says yes, and gets on with the business of living.